Lieve Familie,
I am grateful to be serving a full time mission.
This
week we saw many miracles and held, what I thought, one of the best zone
trainings I have ever been apart of. All these miracles and great experiences
happened due to the ''energy'' that people were feeling or in other words the
Spirit of the Lord. The Holy Ghost is something many of us feel or even the
Light of Christ is something we all experience daily in our lives, but the true
matter is; many of us do not recognize it and are unaware of it or many of us
(non-members) give it the name of ''energy''. Well the spirit is real and the
fruits thereof are ''But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,..Meekness, temperance'' (Galatians
5:22-23) Search for it because that is the love of God and that is where true
wisdom and true knowledge can be found.
As I said however, this week was great. We had an amazing zone training in
which we trained all our missionaries in our zone for a period of 4 hours. I
learned a lot. We are now preparing another training coming up in 2 weeks
(Temple conference) in which we will be training 3 zones in our mission at once
for a period of 2 hours with some of the other leaders. It should be fun and I
am very excited.
This
week was full of many exchanges, which gave me the privilege to serve side by
side with amazing missionaries and learn much from them. It also opened up many
teaching opportunities for me. This up coming week we have 4 exchanges planned
within 5 days and are also giving another training on Saturday to our District
Leaders.. So in other words it is just BUSY BUSY BUSY! But I wouldn’t have it
any other way because we are all ''anxiously engaged in a good cause''.
Family I would like to just touch real quick on a sensitive subject.. Exactly 7
years and 1 day ago Gram Gram passed away and left us to go return back to our
Heavenly Father. I have been thinking a lot about my Grandma and how much of an
impact she has made personally in my life. Accepting the nicknames such as;
G-Unit, G-Slice, etc. and putting up with all of us as her grandchildren.. She
truly was a great example of a pure and patient heart. To be honest I miss her
a lot. Her picture is my bookmark for my personal scriptures so I see her
beautiful smile every morning and I am always reminded of her un-relentless
love. Well this last week I came across an article and a good friend of mine
said the following after losing his brother on his mission...''I know
that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is true and because of this God isn't testing
my faith, but he is testing my patience.''
Death is never a test of faith because ''..there is a resurrection,
therefore the grave hath no victory, and the sting of death is swallowed up in
Christ.'' (Mosiah 16:8) The grave hath no victory, the sting of death is
swallowed up in Christ. Losing someone close to you is not easy, but never
forget it is a of test of your patience. You will see each other again. Faith
gives you Hope and I have a heart full of faith and hope to see Gram Gram
(my grandma) again, but it is just a matter of being patient until then.
I have
learned so many things on my mission and have met so many people who have
changed my life. I am grateful to be serving a full time mission.
Peeps I
love you all. Really I love you. Family you are my everything.
Love,
Big Dude
ENJOY TO THE END
Us following our zone training.
SOO TIREDDD!
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